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16 de oct. de 2017 · By Rob October 16, 2017. This is the third and slightly abridged edition of George Smith’s 1879 biography of Alexander Duff, missionary to India. My thanks to Redcliffe College for providing a copy of the book for scanning. This title is in the public domain. George Smith [1833-1919], The Life of Alexander Duff, 3rd edn., Revised and Abridged.
Duff (1806–1878) was the first foreign missionary of the Church of Scotland and a leading figure in promoting Christian education in India. Duff pioneered what he called 'downward filter theory' which centred on educating India's upper caste through English in the hope that this elite group would then take responsibility for the evangelisation and modernisation of South Asia.
10 de may. de 2023 · Embed. February 13. Alexander Duff. Just when Duff was finishing his education, the Church of Scotland was preparing its first mission, which would be based on education, and they appointed him superintendent of a new mission school at Calcutta. Writing about whether he ought to go India or stay in Scotland, Duff said: “with the Bible in my ...
5 de jul. de 2011 · The Life of Alexander Duff, D.D., LL.D - March 2010. D uring what may appropriately be marked out as this Duff-Bentinck period, the Hindoo mind began to awake from its long sleep under the dominance, first of its own Brahmanism broken only for a time by the Buddhist revolt, and then of the Arab-Muhammadan tyranny, to which it had early lent the culture of the caliphs of Bagdad down to that of ...
Appears in 320 books from 1803-2007. Page 40 - The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice ; the floods lift up their waves. The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea. Appears in 786 books from 1802-2008. Page 12 - I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he ...
Alexander William George Duff, 1. Duke of Fife, KG, KT, GCVO, PC (* 10. November 1849 in Edinburgh; † 29. Januar 1912 in Assuan) war ein schottisch-britischer Adliger und Politiker. Er war der Ehemann von Prinzessin Louise, der ältesten Tochter des späteren König Eduard VII.
Linaje y primeros años. El padre de Alejandra era Alexander Duff, i duque de Fife (1849-1912), hijo del V conde de Fife y de su esposa lady Agnes Hay.Después de haber sucedido a su padre como VI conde de Fife, Alexander Duff fue ascendido a duque de Fife y marqués de Macduff en la Nobleza del Reino Unido, dos días después de su matrimonio en 1889 con la princesa Luisa de Gales, hija mayor ...
